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Personal Health and Fitness

CPD Certified Online Training Approved by Skills for Care

Personal Health and Fitness at a glance

  • 3-year nationally recognised certificate
  • 2 hours and 20 minutes of engaging video training
  • Video access for 8 months
  • Printable wall certificate
  • CPD time credit conformation
  • Free weekly video refresher
  • Evidence Based Training certificate
  • Videos include subtitles
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Online Course: £24.95 + VAT

Keeping fit and eating well is an important part of a healthy lifestyle.  This course gives you the basics of what you need to do and why it is important to balance your diet with your exercise. The course covers many different basic exercises that you can do with minimal equipment to allow you to build basic exercise programs that you can do at home.  

  • Learn how to improve your diet
  • Understand why you need to do exercises not just how to do them
  • Learn some simple but effective exercises you can do at home with minimal equipment
  • Understand more about what your body needs to perform better
  • Use what you learn to improve your body and exercise better
  • Taught by an experienced personal trainer
  • Review and watch again to ensure you understand that course when you need it
 

The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and come with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate and for online courses an Evidence Based Learning statement.

  • Anyone looking to live, eat and exercise better
  • Sports students
  • Personal trainers
  • Anyone who attends a gym

This course comes with 4.0 hours of CPD, although the time to complete the course online may be less than this. Total course time includes 2 hours and 20 minutes of video training as well as knowledge reviews, final test, remedial help and reviewing downloaded material.

The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and come with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate and for online courses an Evidence Based Learning statement.

  • Course terminology
  • Taking the first steps in fitness
  • Seven Factors of a Balanced Diet
  • How To Lose Weight
  • Diet and Nutrition in Exercise
  • TDEE and BMR
  • Maintaining a healthy weight
  • Gender specific body composition
  • Calorie values of foods
  • Recovery foods and drinks
  • The importance of hydration
  • Tracking levels of fitness
  • Exercise safety
  • Preventing and recognising injury
  • Cracking in joints
  • Why do we warm up
  • Warm Up Methods
  • Post Exercise Stretches
  • Body Weight Movements
  • The press up
  • Inclined Press
  • Tricep Press
  • Lower Body Weight Resistance Overview
  • Lower Body Weight Resistance - Squat
  • Lower Body Weight Resistance - Forward Lunge
  • Lower Body Weight Resistance - Glute Bridges
  • Importance of Core Exercises
  • Core Exercises - Leg Raises
  • Core Exercises - Crunch
  • Core Exercises - Plank
  • Resistance bands
  • Resistance bands - lower body
  • Resistance bands - upper body
  • Introduction to Dumbbells
  • Dumbbell exercises - upper body
  • Dumbbell exercises - lower body
  • Kettle bells
  • Kettle bell repetition and range
  • Kettle bell swing
  • Kettle bell goblet squat
  • Kettle bell dead lift
  • Kettle bell clean and press
  • Kettle bell bent over row
  • Kettle bell thruster
  • Suspension systems
  • Suspension system - Bicep curl
  • Suspension system - Tricep extensions
  • Suspension system - Forward lunge
  • Suspension system - Plyometric jump squat
  • Suspension system - Superman crunch
  • Suspension system - Walk out plank
  • Weight plates
  • Weight plate - Ground to overhead plate press
  • Weight plate - Overhead forward lunge
  • Weight plate - Burpie
  • Weight plate - Raised heel
  • Medicine ball - Weighted squat
  • Medicine ball - Bicep curl
  • Medicine ball - Chest press
  • Medicine ball - Split leg raise
  • Medicine ball - Mountain climber
  • Introduction to aerobic steps
  • Step - Upper body exercises
  • Step - Press up
  • Step - Shoulder step
  • Step - Core exercises
  • Step - Leg raise
  • Step - Step ups
  • Step - Bulgarian squat